* Posts by Richard Cartledge

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Virgin Media pilots 200Mbit service

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Upstream is 10th percentile

My VM upstream is ~200k/s. This makes it useless for sharing anything, for uploading files to box.net etc... and for streaming CCTV. Also, the use of upstream seems to cripple the download speed when both are used simultaneously.

Vodafone shows off HTC's second Android phone

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Physical vs software keyboard

I think this phone looks OK technically, if a little like some sort of cheap game-pad. I don't agree that a physical keyboard is always better than a virtual one.

I can type very quickly on the iPhone keyboard. 4 x faster than that OAP on the Gadget Show whose name escapes me did when he typed "Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow." on various smartphones. How can I type this so quickly? because I understand how it works and take advantage of the auto-correction and auto-punctuation and you don't even have to type the whole word before pressing the spacebar and it will auto complete. I can just gently dot my fingers over the keyboard in a blur and the words appear mostly correctly. You don't even have to hit the correct 'key' as it guesses what you meant. I find its best to manually correct the odd error at the end. I look forward to full-size 109 desktop keyboards being like big Iphone screens with contextual keys.

T-Mobile getting out of blighty?

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I remember the day

when they were called One2One and Mercury before that. 1993 it was.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3457/is_n36_v11/ai_14396845/

Sacha Baron Cohen scars Paula Abdul for life

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Codswallop

Funny how most of the people he 'fools' are his friends and associates already.

Apple moves to patent mobile color

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Not so fast

Sounds like they are using scrims rather than coloured gel coats which are swilled into the empty moulds before the carbon fibre is added. If they have a unique process then good look to their patent.

Musician dumps instruments for iPhone

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I think therefore

iflute.

Amazon shames eBay with 24 per cent profit bulge

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Ebay deserve to die

They shaft the sellers, have frequently-changing protracted terms and conditions. They own Paypal which are a load of robbers too. They tried to join in the browser wars. The whole ebay experience these days is awful, I lost my temper and closed my account last November.

Start-up Bee pledges 'affordable' British e-car

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Hello

I designed it in my lunch break in Google 3D Sketchup.

Google accused of UK tax dodge

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Rupert Schmupert

A few years ago, I read that Rupert Murdoch's evil empire avoids paying even more.

BT wins Starbucks Wi-Fi deal

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Bucks for the star

Oo there's a pyramid in my eye!

Google nabs purse snatcher

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Pwnage

" thieves would just have to target iPhone owners - who can't leave Latitude running in the background."

Unless it is has been pwned and has "backgrounder" installed which I suspect anyone likely to be savvy enough to use Latitude will have done.

Which zoo animals like artificial sweeteners: Facts at last

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Yuk!

It should be banned as should it's Monsanto owner.

Virgin Media switches to Gmail

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Spy in your email

I set up a google mail account because I wanted to send an anonymous email to my local council.

As soon as it was sent, adverts for Council 'jobs' for Diversity Engenderment Coordinators and suchlike appeared in banners around my inbox. I would never trust my email to such an outfit.

Microsoft conjures imaginary 'Apple Tax'

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Good

Anything which puts stupid people off buying a Mac gets the thumbs up from me. The last thing the Mac platform needs is to have to pander to stupid.

PETA pitches for Pet Shop Animal Shelter Boys

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Uh Oh where do I start

I heard they were called The Petshop Boys due to their perversions with small rodents. - the act of inserting a small rodent through a tube into one's anus and blowing crack through said tube, exciting the animal's brain to abnormal levels of activity causing it to have repeated muscle spasms and in doing so give the petshop boy great pleasure.

Spies hacked US electrical grid, says WSJ

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Hmmmmm

Looks like we need a New World Order to sort this one out!

Next-gen iPhone to sport 3.2Mp camera?

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Good

Good, I hope they back it up with a lens capable of making use of the added pixels unlike most mobile phone and cheap digital camera makers do and just use x Megapixels to look good in the specs table but really just be a drain on resources due to crap lenses.

Brits build e-car friendly solar parking bay

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Another load of codswallop?

When you manufacture one of these 'green deities' you can see by the high prices that they use a lot of energy to make, that's why they're so expensive.

e.g. £4500 for a 1500kVA max turbine!

That £4500 isn't being spent on much more than say £3500 worth of energy and resources/materials which took a lot of energy to process.

Apple Mac Pro

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It is nice

It is out of my price range, but I suppose it is intended for professionals who can easily have £20k worth of software installed. For example, Comedy Central use them to make SouthPark animation. Snow Leopard OS update should unleash more of the useful power I would hope.

Apple cracks down on rogue app stores

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@Samuel Pickard

You would distribute them through the enterprise tools.

http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/

"Right, if I'm commissioned by a business to write an app for their own use (err, OK, perhaps an app for British Gas - each repairman has an iPhone with my app which tells them their calls for that day - for instance)

does this mean that it has to be approved and go on the app store? Can't I just put it on my site for the British Gas technical staff to install on everyone's iPhone. WTF?"

PC firms slammed in latest Greenpeace eco report

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Greenpi$$

Greenpi$$ make me want to throw up.

Has Icke told you about them? Do you know anything? Here is a factoid to start you off. Their latest offices in Germany cost $60 million and their yearly income is $200 million. Lots of people volunteer because they think it is a good cause. Do you feel it is a good cause? Do you have the tee shirt? No doubt these parasites flew to Cupertino in a chartered plane and Apple donated a million dollars to them to thank them for their 'advice' and for 'highlighting their issues'.

Skype 'coming to iPhone soon'

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I bet its crap

I bet it has no or limited ability to make skypeout calls. just IM chat. Skype stupidly signed agreements with mobile operators such as 3 to say that they would do exclusive deals with them.

Isle of Man e-bike trial loses racers

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What gobshite

Since when did generating electricity become zero emissions?

Leaving PCs on costing UK business millions

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More Common Purpose hogwash

Our big Xerox Phaser 7760s use 28p per 24 hour day in electricity for about 1000 prints which cost £8 in paper and god know houw much in consumables.

Our silver 20" iMacs cost 2.1p per day and are turned off at 9pm, so if they were left on all night it would be 2p more.

I think UK businesses have far more problems caused by the Government than by the piffling little bits of electricity which lets face it 8 months of the year are offset by equally piffling reductions in heating bills thanks to the processing power ending up as heat.

Pot Noodle boils up instant doner kebab

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Pft!

I get my doner kabobs home, and freeze 4/5ths of the meat, buy my own pitta breads and ready to use salad and chop an onion and can make my own whenever I fancy one.

Subsequently, it only takes 30 secs to microwave the tower strips and puff the pitta in the toaster.

O2 starts giving away iPhones

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Jobs Halo

Would never have another contract

Thanks, I'll stick to paying £10 a month topping up my unlocked iPhone on PAYGO Orange with 300 free texts and what appears to be free internet.

iPhone 3.0 beta reveals mixed blessing

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Oh come on

I'm an iPhone fan, but I love ElReg's fanboi/jesusphone stance.

These articles are the highlight of my otherwise dull and colourless life.

TfL cans mobiles on the tube plan

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Awww

I wouldn't want to talk, but to send SMS, email or other internet features such as google maps would have been useful. I bet it will come one day as smart mobiles become defacto and the technology becomes cheaper.

Skinny, curvy Asus Eee inspired by MacBook Air

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It's super fugly

I prefer the look of their other products. The Macbook Air can only get away with the curves because it's thin. This Asus is fat and cheap looking and looks like 1990s tech design when curves were forced onto products which they didn't practically suit.

Polish Spitfire shoots down BNP

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BNP BNP BNP

The BNP = MI5, so what you say about them you say about New Labour.

Apple updates full desktop Mac line-up

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A few minor updates

A few major price hikes.

Etailer flogs signed Jade Goody biog for £1,000

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Good God Almighty!

I come on El Reg to get away from this low-brow crap.

Apple squeezes JavaScript juice from Safari 4 beta release

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Golly

This renders pages so quickly that it's no longer an issue. They all load in a blinkm like changing channels on a TV.

17in MacBook boasts bloody big battery

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Lithium Explosion

Just do a search of the word "lipo" on Youtube to see why Apple don't want end-users removing them. I have had experience of these in other applications, and they can be quite exciting.

Euro-style GM Volt design revealed

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Hmmm

The design looks 3 years old already, they had better bring it out pretty quick.

Next-gen Mac mini 'photo' surfaces

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Nah

I doubt it will have Firewire, or an optical drive.

I think it will be priced a lot lower than the current one too.

McDonalds to cook up EV charging station network

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Karen Matthews

The pikies will love this, it will be stolen caravans, naked kids and rabid dogs galore.

iPhone and iPod Touch dominate handheld web traffic race

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Admob

I wouldn't trust Admob stats to be a true reflection, as they only show webpages accessed with their adverts which may not be representative, and some devices have ad-free standalone apps which are better than the equivalent websites. e.g. Facebook or Skout.

Google shoves ebook monopoly onto iPhone

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Weak OCR

Looks like weak OCR, not even using English dictionary corroboration or google's massive data about which words are likely to precede or accede others.

Iranian rocket puts satellite into orbit

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Well done

Well done Iran! While I have no time for Ahmedenejad's domestic politics or the SAVAK, that doesn't mean everything they say and do is bad, and their attitude towards the Zionist state, New World Order and the illuminati is as good as their post 1979 attitude towards women is bad.

Adobe claims Apple 'collaboration' on iPhone Flash

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Bish bash it happened in a flash

I don't miss it, but concede that I would do on the desktop. I agree that Flash is terribly CPU hogging to achieve very little, some banner ads cause older PCs to grind to a snail's pace, and just leaving a few ad-riddled webpages open on my Macbook will make the fans ramp up after a minute. It would be no good like this on a small device as it would go slow, get warm and the battery charge would plummet.

Doner kebabs: Death wrapped in pitta bread

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Calories

'Dietary calorie' is the second biggest hoax of the 20th century!

It was developed to measure the efficiency of steam boilers not how fat food makes you. The body doesn't incinerate food in a fire, it chemically processes and metabolises it and the two are only coincidentally loosely correlated. That's why if you eat charcoal such as charred bran which is high in calories, you will lose weight rather than gain it. What's more, if you intake lots of calories in one meal, the body can only metabolise a certain amount of it. Despite me claiming that calories are a myth anyway, to get a meaningful measurement you would have to measure calories in the food and calories in the excrement to get any meaningful figure. If you eat a whole box of chocolates at once, it's probably better than eating a few out of the box per day, due to the ineffectiveness of your body to metabolise all of that sugar and fat at once.

2TB drives arrive down under

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Low power I like

I like the low power, low noise and high capacity option for home use, especially in tele-visual applications. Variable speed platter also sounds ideal, no need for 7,200 rpm most of the time.

Mac malware tide on the rise

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ClamAV

Maybe Apple should make ClamAV scan the Downloads folder.

I hope people don't start buying the boxed cobblers, as I suspect these are the people who spread the malware and viruses. I always ask myself "Who's going to benefit the most?"

Thames windfarm execs: We need more subsidy

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Monuments to the stupid

I am sick of hearing how many homes these damn things power, when domestic use is only a fraction of the total electricity. It's a scam, a sham, and we are paying for these useless propellers on sticks.

Seagate isolates 'potential' Barracuda flaw

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DSGi announces new chairman in eye of retail storm

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2nd of September?

Will they still exist on the 2nd of September when this guy is supposed to takeover?

Hitachi highlights gesture-controlled HD TV

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Why?

Why would anyone want to go to such a great effort to do something you can do with the nudge of a finger tip? Gimmick. Touch-less gesture technology is largely a technology that has no real use looking for a use.

Mac mini said to get Ion innards

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Downgrade

If it is a downgrade with a suitable price downgrade, then I'm all for it.

US woman says Ubuntu can't access internet

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Stupid Sasafras

Giving UBUNTU to someone who is a noob but who is also used to Windows is a recipe for disaster. I found out the hard way.

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